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transversion

The English word “transversion” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A point mutation in which a purine is replaced with a pyrimidine, or vice versa
  2. The changing from prose into verse, or verse into prose.

Etymology

From trans- + -version. Compare conversion.

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